51 in novato. Forecast calls for crowds this morning, decreasing throughout the late afternoon. Planning on some sun today with mid and upper 60s around the bay. 70s inland, brighter and mild and tonight clear. Well talk about a warmup still on track for the week ahead in a few minutes. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Todays Easter Sunday and passover celebrations will be different in households across the bay area. The first major holiday since coronavirus hit the United States with full force. Organizers of decades old traditions are moving to new ways of worship. Atop mt. Davidson the first time in its History Easter Sun Rise Service wont be happening. The cross is lit up in blue to show solidarity with Health Care Workers. Laura martinez shows us how Easter Services are shifting to keep everyone safe. Reporter since 1923, Easter Sunrise Service has been held at the mt. Davidson cross in San Francisco. For the first time in its 97year history, that tradition is now canceled amid the pandemic
San francisco a lot of cloud cover and a little bit of drizzle reported. A bit of a flow bringing in some of the moisture and its going to bring some drizzle for the coastal areas even down through san jose, a bit of the light rain. A look at satellite radar. The low clouds for the first half of our day and then eventually well get the sunshine, so the clouds arent going to linger all day long which is always going to be great news. We do have limited visibility including san jose down to about mile miles and santa cruz 6 miles. Henever we get the limited headlights and you should be okay. Ill have a closer look at your forecast coming up in 15 minutes. Coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise but here in San Francisco case counts and death remain low comparatively thanks to the early action to shelter at home and work from home. Bay area doctors and nurses are volunteering to leave their posts and answering the call for help in the devastated front lines of new york. Thank you. T
Safely in person as long as they stayed in their cars. Kpix 5s jackie ward attended a drive in service in san jose. Reporter with the service up on the big screen, members of the church to the radio. It was some sort of escape to bring them comfort. This easter, even though it is now five weeks of being sheltered in place, i believe this Easter Service is pivotal. Reporter with cars circling around and the word of god broadcasting over the air, Easter Sunday looked and sounded a little bit different for church this year. Instead of filing in to rows, they stayed in their cars as they listened to a 15 empty ceremony. It was bittersweet. I feel like we all miss each other a lot and it was emotional because we cant see each other anymore and so it was nice to see everybody but also just brought up a lot of feelings we are not able to see each other because of the pandemic. Reporter this is how her kids saw their grandparents. Grandpa says it was still special to see their faces in person.
We continue to plead for more trusting still has not come any anywhere near the numbers that we need. To call for help from the mayor of new york after the us records more deaths than anywhere else in the world its also Global Leaders have agreed to major reductions in Oil Production as demand for its because of the pandemic. An empty church pews around the worlds coronavirus leads to an easter celebration unlike any in modern history. Everyone china has released new figures showing just over 100 corona virus infections across the country in the last 24 hours that number is actually the highest number in 6 weeks so there are some concerns about a possible 2nd outbreak well look at that in a moment but 1st the global picture more than 114000 people have died from cove in 19 there are over 1800000 infections in the u. K. Alone the death toll has now gone past 10 thousands Prime Minister barr stunts and though he is recovering from coronaviruses out of hospital after several several days
They tell us the kids are recovering, so now the focus turns to the big picture, and parents tell us they had serious talks with their kids last night. Its valentines day. Kids at james Lake Middle School in San Francisco will hesitate before accepting candy. After conversations they had last night with their parents eat anything thats, you know, thats not in a wrapper, thats not thats in a zip lock bag to be careful. We dont know. Reporter parents spresponde to what happened here yesterday afternoon when ten kids got sick after ingesting what the district now says appears to be cannab cannabis. One dad said his daughter said it was in a form attractive to kids. One response was it was an edible thing like candy, describing it as i dont know, strips. Reporter parents are worried this is just a sign of the times. Especially with the change in the marijuana legislation, i think this is just, you know, a first story in probably many that will come. I have a 20yearold, and shes never i nev